World Headlines: Immigrants A Net Boost To U.K., Study Says

We begin with a hot-button issue in Britain – and elsewhere: immigration.

Migrants to Britain since 2000 are less likely to receive benefits or use government housing than those people already in the country. That's according to a new study by the University of London's migration research unit.

The study released Tuesday found that these migrants made a net contribution of nearly $40 billion to public finances. Migrants from the European Economic Area were most likely to make a positive contribution. They paid about 34 percent more in taxes than they received. For immigrants from other parts of the world, the figure was 2 percent.

But when the study examined migrants from non-EEA countries coming to Britain since 1995, it found they claimed more in benefits than they paid in taxes.

Next to Venezuela, whose economy is struggling with inflation as well as a devalued currency.

The devalued bolivar has increased the prices of imported goods and are hurting Venezuelan families.

The country's central bank said the wholesale price of imported goods rose 42.5 percent in the first seven months of the year; that's about six times the 7.2 percent increase during the same period last year.

The bolivar has dropped more than 30 percent against the dollar since the start of the year.